ταφ-εύς · taph-eus — LSJ
burier, grave-digger
burier, grave-digger, S. OC 582, El. 1488, Plu. Comp.Pel.Marc. 3.
The corpus record
ταφ-εύς
tapheus · ὁ
burier, grave-digger
Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Bel et Draco (LXX) 1 · 11.9/10k
- Ajax 2 · 2.54/10k
- Electra 2 · 2.3/10k
- Menexenus 1 · 2.08/10k
- Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
- Agesilaus 1 · 1.36/10k
- Oedipus at Colonus 1 · 0.97/10k
- Machabaeorum II 1 · 0.87/10k
- Job 1 · 0.75/10k
- Paralipomenon II 1 · 0.51/10k
- Phaedo 1 · 0.46/10k
- Deuteronomium 1 · 0.45/10k
Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
In the wild
- ταφῇ · taphēi Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 818–821
- ταφῆς · taphēs Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 9173)
- ταφῆς · taphēs Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 4.4 (DIORISIS sentence 3288)
- ταφῆς · taphēs Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 5.4 (DIORISIS sentence 4447)
- ταφῆς · taphēs Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 9.7 (DIORISIS sentence 7960)
- ταφῆς · taphēs Herodotus, Histories 1.112.3 (DIORISIS sentence 813)
6 of 29 attestations shown. Ask for more.
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.